"The book reinterprets Marx's historical materialism as a world accounting history, answers his critics, and supports …

"Alfred Sohn-Rethel's Intellectual and Manual Labour is one of the major texts of post-war Marxist theory. A tremendous … print for many years, this new Historical Materialism edition contains a new introduction by Chris O'Kane, an afterword by … Chris Arthur, and a complete compilation of the responses to Intellectual and Manual Labour published in the Italian journal …